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From time to time, I enjoy browsing the LA Metro subreddit.

All opinions in this post are solely my own, and do not represent the positions of my employer or any organizations of which I am part.

Over the past year, American railroads seem to have discovered the value in growth.

For the last century, the central question of American transit planning has been how best to serve our suburbs.

In February 2023, two thousand feet of Chicago’s South Normal Boulevard disappeared.

A year ago, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority released a plan to widen the New Jersey Turnpike Extension through Jersey City.

Every day, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers lurch into dusty darkness as their Manhattan-bound 4 or 5 train leaves Brooklyn’s Franklin Avenue station.

If you follow my Twitter account or have read other articles on my blog, you will have likely seen a chart that looks like the above.

Every now and then, someone on Twitter posts an image of a subway countdown clock showing an extraordinarily long wait for the next train.

Since the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Amtrak expansion has become a hot-button topic.